An auteur who has a specific vision that is trying to give coworkers space can be the worst of both worlds.
- An auteur who has a specific vision that is trying to give coworkers space can be the worst of both worlds.
- It reduces to a kind of "guess and check" where often what the coworkers do gets a "no, that's not it."
- If that happens again and again it can be demoralizing.
- Better to either actually give autonomy or just be directive and own the result.
- Then if the result isn't what you wanted, the answer is not "they messed up the execution" it's "I didn't direct them clearly enough."
- A lot of the work to do big things is to distill in enough concreteness and clarity that a team can coordinate around and execute.
- The idea is easy, the execution is the hard part.